From frozen coastal villages, to the high plains free from colonists; from bear-infested brumal taiga to idyllic groves cursed by mysterious magicks, each tale found herein opens a gateway into a cold world during desperate times.

This curated issue of literary fantasy offers both action and stillness in the form of masterfully crafted prose and poetry. Though some are mournful and frigid, others light the hearth with hopeful kindling. The range of fantasy is vast, but a microcosm of it has been captured in these pages, like a fluffy snowflake landing upon one’s tongue.

Highlights include: Eilo Somner’s Ghost of the Iron Age, a novelette depicting the death of the last viking; Melanie Flores’s trilogy of poems, Daughters of the Slavic Realm; and Benjamin Ray Allee’s introduction in the latest Arcanist Online serial, Echoes & Orisons.

Writers published in this issue: Benjamin Ray Allee, Melanie Flores, Jan Karlsson, Eilo Somner, Matthew Spence, and L.D. Whitney.